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Reinhard Mey - Diplomatenjagd

My phone is almost as old as my PC (which is from 2000!). Or... is it even older?... I can't remember. It's a Motorola cd930; I can talk to people with it, and write short messages. And it fell to the ground a few times and doesn't have a scratch visible. I use my technology until it dies or someone buys me a new piece. (Me got no €)

Well yeah; I'm just gonna pretend they fit a very basic warp drive into it... I mean a ship without FTL ability is pretty much useless. Right now she has a warp rating of 3.5 in my calculation system; which equals a Reb Hyper value of 107 (the slowest there is). The Constitution has a Warp value of 7 (54) and the B'rel has 9.3 (40). I might change it down to 3, but probably no further.

Okay, well, the first test log is pretty useless, but I want to start this thread before I forget about it, and maybe this is good for a laugh or two. "Date: Nov 16, 2004 TC status: Beginning phase. Changes so far: Stats of every ship, fighter, troop, character and specforce changed, galaxy redecorated, some sound effects and graphics changed. Too much still missing. Test Game: K1. Side: Klingons. Galaxy size: Large. Normal game. Easy difficulty. Day 1 The story begins. Khan (who needs to have his throat examined, it seems, and who has an unhealthy blue aura sometimes) and his superior intellect go to recruit people on Kronos, the Klingon imperial homeworld (conveniently located in the not-yet-renamed Sesswenna sector in the very north of the map. General Chang (who has slight troubles with his voice as well) moves to the head of the starship research team in the Wistril system. (Yes, I've given main chars research abilities) Chancellor Gorkon and his daughter Azet'bur try to add some worlds to the empire via diplomacy, and they have two Romulan ambassadors to help them. They're doing a good job, too. Two Romulan-refit Klingon D7 cruisers are found in the orbit of Kronos (telling me I have to switch the slots for the Romulan and Klingon D7). They team up with two troop transports fully loaded with Klingon warriors and move to the Federation world of Balmorra. Day 14 Balmorra is in Klingon hands. No resistance from the citizens. Romulan diplomat Nanclus does his best to calm the inhabitants down and, eventually, convince them of the superiority of Klingon rule. Two B'rel class scouts move to the Sumitra sector, where Earth is located (yeah, I know, I'll change all the system and sector names later). Their fast warp drives will take them there in a matter of two weeks. (Their engines are among the fastest in the game now; I want to "force" the player to use them a lot; maybe I'll enhance their bombing abilities as well) Two Romulan Birds of Prey warp over to a nearby system. Unfortunately, their warp drives are among the slowest, so they'll need a week only to cross the sector. (Their heavy plasma cannons make them good bombardment units, but they are meant to be obsolete pretty soon) Days 30-100 A few minor skirmishes along the border. Romulan and Klingon ships raid Federation planets, meeting only minor resistance. Two Klingon ships damaged, one Feeration ship lost. The two Birds of prey meet with the B'rels to assault Obroa-Skai, where the Federation HQ is said to be (why it would be in a colonized system is beyond me). Together they destroy five Oberth-class scout ships and a squadron worth of Federation shuttles. The Romulan infiltrators, however, fail to bring down the planet's shields due to the planning of General Sulu (who looks awfully Wookie-ish) and a division of stationary defense systems. But the HQ is gone anyway, so the fleet moves on. Days 100-200 After the unsuccessful assault on Obroa-Skai and the rapid departure of the blockading ships the whole sector declared themselves allied with the Federation. The Sluis sector is firmly in Klingon hands, after two disgruntled Federation worlds were "liberated" by romulan agents and the last planet fell to the mighty Klingon army. The fleet gathered again for a short raid on Earth, only to discover a heavy defending force (relatively) and the Federation HQ. One Klingon scout was destroyed in the battle, but the defenders' lines could not withstand the plasma firepower of the Romulans. Day 236 After a short blockade, the Federation HQ is destroyed by a Klingon sabotage team (the Romulans were busy). One brave warrior died during the mission; he will be honored by those who fought at his side. Due to a error in the Klingon database, the recordings of the destruction were replaced by a wing of Dupes bombing a floating city to rubble, but the event was celebrated anyway; The warriors were too drunk to notice anything. after that: The damaged ships return to the drydocks for repairs. A small group of D-7V carriers raid the Federation borders, accompanied by even more B'rels. I save and quit. Summary: This TC needs a lot of work. Today's test, however, showed some positive results. The AI builds the troops I want them to and the new sound effects for the tactical battles add 100 points of Trek atmosphere. I hope I can change the models soon. Apart from that, there is still way too much of the original game still here. No surprise there. I knew I would advance slooowly. Summary of the Summary: Woohoo!"

Sonic 2 soundtrack (Yes, the Mega Drive/Genesis game): Casino Night Zone This brings back memories...

Create an MSN group or a Photobucket account; Works for me.

...aren't Scooter from Germany too? Anyway: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Easily

Okay, thank you so far. 2) Nah, I meant both sides having a planet as HQ, but I guess that's not very possible. 3) I think weapons are indeed the only thing not there. I suppose the shots aren't created via the use of graphics files, but are really just lines of colored pixels generated on the fly. Oh well. 5) Already using that one. Maybe I'll be the first one to completely map the dlls... 6) Oh-Kayy... This'll have to wait until I got more time, then. 4) Ah, found it.

Well. My small TC is progressing slowly but steadily and I've come across a few questions. Some of these I'm almost certain will be answered with "not possible" or "don't know", but I can still be surprised, I think. 1) Can you kill the Dagobah event or the Force messages whenever the Luke slot character messes up a mission? 1a) Can you get rid of the Luke vs Vader, Final Battle, etc. events? 1b) Can you get rid of the Bounty hunter event (prob. a no)? 2) Is it possible to change the objectives of either side (like, have both sides have an HQ planet as victory condition for the others to take)? 3) Can weapons graphics be changed? If nothing else, can the colors of the shots be changed? 4) Umm, how can I replace wavs inside the dlls? I couldn't detect an option for this in ResHack, but then again, before I could investigate further, it crashed (again). 4a) What sizes and (possibly) formats does Rebellion support? do sound files have to have a certain length (like, exactly the length of the originals), sample frequency, etc? 5) Does someone have an exact list of what bmp is found where in the dlls, esp. gokres? I'm quite annoyed with ResHack crashing while I explore. 6) Again, what's the calculation for damage control? And shield recharge, for that matter. I could try and test some of these, but I'm lazy. That's it for now. Thank you for any help. Have a nice day! -- Fishface

How about the waving-hand-in-front-of-somebody's-face-trying-to-alter-his-mind-thing? I do that all the time. Oh yeah, and before lectures I hum the Imperial March when the professor enters. And I try to get objects from across the room using the Force. And sometimes I answer phone calls with "Ke chu ke kukuta?" and reply with "Balka. Hachu ma Blinki. Hohohohohoo." Only when I know it's someone who gets the joke, though. And I use Jabba-style laughs and Chewie's complaining moan and many. Many. Others.

Aww, I was hoping for some space-based strategy game. With capital ships and fighter squadrons and lots of turbolasers and BIG SHIPS THAT GO BOOM. I WANT BIG SHIPS THAT GO BOOM! IS THAT SO MUCH TO ASK?! [cough] Oh, well, I think I'll have to stick to Warlords.

Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung - Nie wieder Kunst!

I think there was a new class of ships for the Republic announced, something that should bring us a bit closer to the Star Destroyer design. I think this Republic cruiser (which, indeed, fires blue bolts which seem to be lasers though) is it. And I could really grow to like this one. It actually looks bigger than an Acclamator, from what the windows on the hull look like, but it's hard to tell. What the Dreadnaught-look-alike really is is not clear though... EDIT: Stellar, could you elaborate?

Definetly not an Acclamator, but no mandibles either - on your shot this is what it looks like, but the same class of ship in the background http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v436/RiesstiuIV/Krempel/snap034.jpg reveals the red is just a paint job.

Um, yeah, that would be interesting to know indeed.

nice one! Oooh, feel the insanity! http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0RQA1A0IVzvE5JEPGA!GeTjvtPDcgRaxtuxhOEtowGJc77!648jqISlC7GOA2CiUfR6uwZHkvRngaAv0Hux1BuSGFnO68UUUNzeFrgVN!Xeo/Palpeque.gif

My guess: Large: Visible (active) in Large Galaxy games only. Medium: Visible in Large and Medium Galaxy games Small: Visible in all games.

Actually, Chewie can die.

Mario Party + buncha friends + beer = fun for hours

To clarify... People from northern Germany don't understand people from the south and vice versa. People from eastern Austria don't understand the ones from the west. People from Germany don't understand people from Austria. People from Austria don't understand the ones from Germany (maybe the ones from the south, some of them). Noone understands Schwitz'rdütsch. Yep, one language indeed. Well, it's not that bad, but in university I meet lots of people from other parts of Austria, and there is a kind of language barrier (the alps, I guess). This kinda thing is natural for every language. P.S.: Österreich, Deutschland, die Schweiz

Curse you GAT, I can't stop listening to that song!

"leet" indeed.

Did this today. Not much comedy value in there, but it's the right size for an avatar or something. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v436/RiesstiuIV/TIEtarget.gif

Ah. In that case - no. Adding stuff is not possible with most items atm.

One, Two, all of them, whatever! There is a document in the downloads section which will tell you more about the exact location of the strings you need to edit (as I can't remember right now). Welcome aboard!